Case file · Retrieval claim

The Plains of San Agustin crash story

In the 1980 book 'The Roswell Incident', the late civil engineer Grady 'Barney' Barnett was said to have told friends he saw a crashed disc and small bodies on the Plains of San Agustin, about 150 miles west of the Roswell debris field.

1947 CE · 33.87, -107.72 · status: claim

The account

The story is second-hand: Barnett had died in 1969. In 1990 Gerald Anderson came forward claiming that, aged five, he had seen the same crash with his family; Stanton Friedman championed the site while Kevin Randle and others rejected it, and Anderson's account fell apart under investigation, including a diary he was shown to have altered.

The sceptical view

There is no first-hand witness, no date for Barnett's story and no physical trace. Most Roswell researchers today regard the San Agustin crash as a legend grafted onto the 1947 debris recovery.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Roswell incident
  2. Kevin Randle: The Plains of San Agustin crash
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